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Exelis and Satair Group have partnered to distribute Exelis-made components for commercial aircraft waste and water tanks. Satair Group said Thursday it will also provide aftermarket sales and support services to aerospace customers of Exelis waste storage tank products globally under a five-year distribution agreement between the companies. Exelis unit EDO Corp. has produced composite […] More
A new Verizon cybersecurity report has highlighted what the company describes as a continuing gap between the time a data breach occurs and when a company detects the cyber attack. Mike Denning, vice president of global security for Verizon enterprise solutions, said Wednesday that the company continues “to see sizable gaps in how organizations defend […] More
NASA‘s Mercury Surface, Space Environment, Geochemistry, and Ranging spacecraft has uncovered several key information about the planet Mercury during its nearly four years of on-orbit operations. NASA said Thursday the Messenger spacecraft is now anticipated to crash-land on Mercury by the end of the month as it runs out of helium gas propellant following a series of orbit correction maneuvers. “While spacecraft […] More
Northrop Grumman has completed tests for a protected tactical waveform space processor intended to help improve battlefield communications for soldiers. The processor established communication through the U.S. Air Force’s tactical waveform during the demonstration at the MIT/Lincoln Labs test facility, Northrop said Wednesday. The tactical waveform platform incorporated multichannel demodulators, Ethernet-based packet switching, high-data-rate modulators and control […] More
The U.S. Navy‘s Office of Naval Research has demonstrated a platform that works to launch multiple unmanned aerial vehicles on a swarm-based mission to deter adversaries. ONR said Tuesday the military branch tested the Low-Cost UAV Swarming Technology with BAE Systems-built Coyote drones during a recent demonstration. The service also used the LOCUST system in […] More
IBM has made its threat intelligence database available to customers and industry via the cloud-based IBM X-Force Exchange platform to drive information sharing and collaboration to mitigate potential cyber attacks. The company said Thursday the platform will provide access to more than 700 terabytes of information on malware, vulnerabilities, IP address and website reputation, spam and phishing attacks, and real-time threat indicators. […] More
The General Services Administration is seeking information on potential sources of business models or procurement vehicles for the implementation of federated digital identity credential services for the Connect.gov program. In the notice posted Thursday on FedBizOpps, GSA said the project management office for cloud computing services within the Federal Acquisition Service aims to develop a shared service operating […] More
DRS Technologies has been awarded a $55 million contract with the U.S. Navy to install voice communications systems in the Aegis cruisers and destroyers. The integrated communications systems will link to the ships’ announcement system, shore telephone lines, radio and sound-powered telephone circuits, DRS said Wednesday. DRS will begin the installation process in 2015. The IVCS […] More
Kathleen Alyce Waters, formerly a partner at Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, has joined Health Net as senior vice president, general counsel and secretary. She will lead the company’s corporate legal functions and report to President and CEO Jay Gellert when she starts on April 27, Health Net said Wednesday. Waters will succeed the retiring Angelee Bouchard. […] More
Lockheed Martin is set to host a computer programming contest on April 18 for hundreds of high school students. Participants will be divided into novice and advanced teams and and tasked to complete a series of coding challenges within two and a half hours, Lockheed said Thursday. The Code Quest challenge is part of the company’s […] More
Brian Roach, vice president of the federal business and managing director for worldwide government at Juniper Networks, says that the Defense Department and other agencies are increasingly using software-defined networking to streamline IT systems. Roach writes in a guest piece published Tuesday on Defense Systems that current government efforts in network consolidation, automation and security drive […] More
Information Builders has entered into an alliance with MapR Technologies to provide enterprise customers with a combination of the former’s business intelligence and analytics software and MapR’s Apache Hadoop distribution platform. The companies said Wednesday the partnership works to manage data integrity to generate insights from “impactful” analytics. Gerald Cohen, president and CEO of Information Builders, said the […] More
